CONTROL OF BOXING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 15

CONTROL OF BOXING.

AMATEUR UNION'S POSITION. DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Friday. Recognition of the New Zealand Amateur Boxing Union as the controlling authority of amateur boxing in the Dominion is asked in a petition presented to Parliament to-day by Mr. J. McC. Dickson. (Chalmers), on behalf of E. L. Macassey and 197 others, officers and members of the union, and also officers of other amateur sports organisations. Many of the signatories are headmasters of secondary schools. The petition sets out that the control of boxing is now vested in the New Zealand Boxing Association, which is said to have devoted its attention in recent years principally to the professional side of the sport. Boxing is the only sport in which the professional and amateur sides are controlled by the one body, and supporters of the amateur code have expressed dis» satisfaction with the manner in which their interests have been looked after. To foster the amateur side, the Amateur Boxing Union had been formed with affiliated clubs, but it had been* refused recognition by the Minister of Internal Affairs as a body entitled by law to issue permits for the holding of amateur tournaments. A further request is that the Police Offences Act should be amended by removing the provision which requires that a police permit must be obtained for amateur tournaments. It is also asked that the police right of entry to places where amateur boxing is being held should be done away with, the petitioners expressing the opinion that the presence of police at such gatherings is as unnecessary as the presence of a policeman in uniform at a Juvenile Court.